Astrolabe Copper
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Field
Guinea Gold Applies for Six Gold Leases
From Our Own Correspondent.
PT. MORESBY, August 18.
THE Astrolabe copper field continues to hold the attention of prospectors and miners, and several leases have been applied for within recent weeks. Mr.
Nason Jones, of Guinea Gold N.L., ap plied on August 6 for six mining leases, one of these jointly with Mr. A. Christie, whose “Moresby King” claim is at present under option to Mandated Gold Options N.L., of Sydney.
The Astrolabe field, embracing an area of 1,000 square miles, was first opened up in 1906. One reads in the Annual Report for 1906/07 that “The most notable event in the history of mining development this year has been the discovery of a payable copper field in the country at the back of Port Moresby.” Some of the assays of these mines showed traces of gold and silver; some, 3 dwt. 22 grs. of gold and 1 oz. 8 dwt. of silver to the ton.
There were then two reward claims, the “Hector” and the “Astrolabe,” which have both been taken up recently by Port Moresby residents, and it is reported that sample assays show fairly good prospects of gold, Mr. Ivan Champion, Assistant Resident Magistrate at Misima Island, Papua, ar rived in Brisbane by the Montoro on August 10, accompanied by his wife and daughter, to spend several months’ fur lough in Queensland.